OpenBSD

Theo de Raadt announced OpenBSD 4.6 on the openbsd-misc mailing list. The announcement gives an overview of the most important changes. For a detailed information have a look at http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus46.html. OpenBSD should be released on Oct 1st but has been delayed to Nov 1st …

FreeBSD

FreeBSD published a security advisory FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null due to a security vulnerability in the FreeBSD kernel. A malicious process that has mapped code or data at address 0 may be able to execute arbitary code with kernel privileges when invoking a NULL pointer.

OpenBSD

The new release brings a new privilege-separated SMTP daemon, improvements over OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemons, a per default enabled pf(4) that has stricter checking for ICMP and ICMP6 packets, improved driver support and many …